To me The Joker is quintessential comic book villain. Forget Lex Luthor, Doctor Doom , Magneto, Sinestro, Thanos, Darkseid and all the others.
What makes The Joker such a great villain is his unpredictability. He’s chaos personified and the perfect Ying to Batman’s Yang. He is the flip side to Batman’s coin, his opposite and his dark side.
He knows Batman better than anyone. It’s been speculated that he knows Batman’s secret identity and that he will never kill Batman. To him that would take all the fun out of life.
Jim Lee provides the 1970s style cover illustration for DC Comics The Joker 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular.
Inside a plethora of artists and writers explore the many facets of The Joker from the maniacal madman to the homicidal maniac to the (surprisingly) compassionate and merciful trickster to the final confrontation with his old nemesis.
Also included is a gallery of the best of the best covers from the 1970s. It’s a worthy anniversary celebration for the Clown Prince of Crime.
Colossians 3:23 (KJV) “And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;’
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